The present issue between the American company, Google, and the Chinese government highlights the repressive nature of the Chinese regime. As a matter of fact, the authorities expect Google to control and restrict the contend of the information diffused on the internet. They don't want the contend to be "politically and morally nuisible".
However, Google doesn't want to conform anymore to the policy imposed by the government which is accused of privacy violation for having spied emails from potential dissidents.

The government controls the information diffusion and social networks like Facebook, Twitter or Youtube are forbidden. Thus, they control public opinions. In order to do this, they created an important control system with the hackers, the green dam (by imposing computors sold in China to be equipped of software which filters the pornographic contend), the blue dam...  The risk is that these tools can be used to control other contends like political subjects...

The danger of drift is more and more important as the government is spreading its activities to mobile phones, still using the excuse of pornography. So this is an intrusion in people's privacy.

The question is: Does Google have to conform to the governement's expectations even if it goes against its ideas? and what is the risk of this kind of practices?

What do you think about it? 

Marine Fabbris